Environmental Economics

How quickly they forget. LOL.
For many years now, the job of “liberals” has been to liberally arrogate arbitrary power to the executive, and use it to force business people to wade through (or hire ridiculously expensive lawyers to do the wading) ever more pages of self-contradictory bumf, before carrying out even the most trivial action. This has succeeded brilliantly, witness President Obama’s famous proclamation that he “had a pen and a phone.”
But about that. Now The Donald has the pen and the phone. Of course, from the narrow view of a handsomely appointed silo in Manhattan, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Hollywood, or Los Angeles, this scenario was believed inconceivable, because the ethnic vote or whatever. Only it happened anyway, partly because most of the world isn’t actually an impossibly costly skyscraper apartment.
So now the job of “conservatives” – or whatever The Donald might be, which no one can possibly know – is to conserve the power they could never conceivably have grabbed, and use it to their own ends. Oops.
I suppose we could return to constitutional government with checks and balances – and with reasonable quantities of bumf rather than planet-sized stacks of it – but luxuries like due process would proceed too slowly to comport with the contrived urgency with which both sides bless their pet issues.
Since both sides enthusiastically support quasi-dictatorship – that pen and that phone – and since their respective desired ends are all so sacred and holy as to, er, trump all else, I suppose quasi-dictatorship is what we shall have.